On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, you wrote:
>Guillaume Cottenceau a �crit :
>>
>> robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> > what are the correct permissions for /dev/dsp?
>> >
>> > XMMS works fine when I run as root, but when I run XMMS as a user I get an
>> > error message about permissions denying access to /dev/dsp
>>
>> the user physically logon on the machine should get it for him.
>
>Yes, it should :-)
>In my own case, it's pure fantasy.
>For the moment i have :
>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root audio 11 ao� 8 05:58 /dev/dsp ->
>.../dev/dsp0
>crw------- 1 guillaum audio 14, 3 jui 19 18:48 /dev/dsp0
>crw------- 1 guillaum audio 14, 19 jui 19 18:48 /dev/dsp1
>crw------- 1 guillaum audio 14, 35 jui 19 18:48 /dev/dsp2
>crw------- 1 guillaum audio 14, 51 jui 19 18:48 /dev/dsp3
>[guillaume@agathe guillaume]$ ll /dev/mixer*
>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 ao� 8 05:58 /dev/mixer ->
>.../dev/mixer0
>crw------- 1 guillaum audio 14, 0 jui 19 18:48 /dev/mixer0
>crw------- 1 guillaum audio 14, 16 jui 19 18:48 /dev/mixer1
>crw------- 1 guillaum audio 14, 32 jui 19 18:48 /dev/mixer2
>crw------- 1 guillaum audio 14, 48 jui 19 18:48 /dev/mixer3
>/dev/mixer and /dev/dsp symlink doesn't have the same group !? And
>what's the use of audio group in this situation ?
Groups and users for a symlink don't matter at all. See the permissions
of the symlink itself : rwxrwxrwx, always. What matters is the file pointed to.
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